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Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter. Kathy Perry was born in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The middle child of two pastors, she grew up listening to gospel music and singing in church. After Steve Thomas and Jennifer Knapp signed Perry their Red Hill Records, she released her first CD Katy Hudson in 2001, a Christian gospel album.

After the signing of Capitol Records, Perry began to record for his official debut album stream, released in 2008, working with Greg Wells, Dr. Luke, Butch Walker, Max Martin, Cathy Dennis, Dave Stewart, and Ted Bruner. The album, titled One of the Boys is released in the U.S. June 17, 2008. Katy was an act in the 2008 Vans Warped Tour to promote the album. The album was preceded by a digital EP in late 2007, entitled "Ur So Gay", produced by and co-written with Greg Wells. A video of the song founded in early 2008, and brought Perry to the attention of Madonna, who said on KISS FM & KRQ a JohnJay & Rich Morning Show, Arizona stating that "Ur So Gay" was his "favorite song right now," as well as another mention on Ryan Seacrest Morning Show. "Ur So Gay" has been criticized for alleged homophobia.

April 29, 2008, his first official single from one of the Boys, "I Kissed a Girl ", debuted on the iTunes Store. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 76, climbing to No. 1 from of June 25, 2008. It peaked on iTunes Top 100 at No. 1 as of June 3, 2008. The video for "I Kissed a Girl" was released May 21, 2008 on MySpace. The song was controversial because of its popularity with children and the representation of sexuality, homosexuality and promiscuity. However, an essay in Slant Magazine argues that the song "is not problematic because it promotes homosexuality, but because its appropriation of the gay life exists for the sole purpose of holding the attention, both from Perry's boyfriend and her audience. "As an actress, she made a brief appearance Carbon Leaf on the video "Learn to Fly" and on Gym Class Heroes' video "Cupid's Chokehold", playing the possible interest for the love of her real life boyfriend, lead singer Travis McCoy. On March 10, 2008, she appeared as herself on ABC Family Wildfire. She appeared in commercials Too Faced cosmetics for spring 2007 line. On June 12 Perry appeared as herself on the popular daytime soap opera, The Young & Restless l ', posing for the cover of Restless Style magazine fiction and on MTV's TRL.

This year, his single "I Kissed a Girl" became a worldwide hit, surpassing Billboard Hot 100, Canadian Hot 100, the UK Singles Chart, the Australian ARIA charts and peaked at # 2 on the charts worldwide. The single is the second single from the album "One of the Boys" produced by Dr. Luke. The video of the song was directed by Kinga Burza features a Moulin Rouge and burlesque-type setting with scenes containing Katy, along with many other women dressed in flamboyant, dance to the song. The video was TV debut June 12 on TRL with the visit and interview by Perry in concert together. And June 24, 2008, he became # 1 on TRL. He made his debut at No. 20 on VH1's VH1 Top 20 Countdown Video on June 28, 2008. On June 30, 2008, the video was created on MTV Latin America.

On July 6 2008, it went all the way to # 4 on VH1's VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown and the video was nominated for best female video for MTV Video Music Awards 2008. A second cover version by Barnicle, entered the UK Singles Chart (published 3 August 2008) at position # 116. There is no doubt that Katy Perry's single provocative and sexy new hit will end up being one of the most popular of 2008 in the United States and the rest of the world. View more

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